MY LIFE AS AN ANGLER. By William Henderson. 1880 New Edition.

# (1876) 1880 new edition (1883 later issue). Small 8vo (130 x 203mm). Ppxiv,349 + xvi + xvi pp ads. B/w "Woodbury portrait" photograph frontispiece, 12 woodcuts by Edmund Evans. Binding B (1883) in a more ornate binding (the same as that of the 1879 edition, but in a smaller format) - dark green cloth titled in gilt on spine and upper board, ornately decorated with gilt spine vignette and upper board design of fish and line; heavy boards and bevelled edges, patterned end-papers.

# "William Henderson's book is a richly entertaining account of fishing adventures, mostly in the North (the author was a carpet manufacturer from Durham) on such rivers as the Wear, Coquet and Tweed. Henderson knew some legendary fly-tyers of the time, including John Younger, the St Boswells shoemaker and author, James Wright of Sprouston (to whom we owe the "Greenwell's Glory" among other historic patterns), and Percival S. Wilkinson, whose famous salmon fly was regarded for years as the essential Tweed medicine." (Flyfisher's Classic Library catalogue 2003). Binding B. Later issue (1883) in a more ornate binding than the 1880 issue, possibly produced especially for the Great International Fisheries Exhibition of 1883. Two 16 pp catalogues of Satchell's publications are bound-in at rear, the second being of books exhibited at the Fisheries Exhibition.